Update on the performance of our Daily STI (Short TREND Indicator)

In the September TREND Technical Trader newsletter, we described what we feel is the ideal method by which subscribers may take advantage of bullish or bearish signals in our proprietary Daily STI.

These are the results if following that simple method, which only requires checking the Daily Update on this site after market hours (available via Trend Technical Trader subscriber access) and taking the suggested action, if any, based on the Daily STI reading.  Intraday trading is not required - limits and stops can be set upon entry of the position and the rest is automatic.

Since November 18 +25% not compounded.  By compasion, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 2.3% since November 18. 

Since end of July +34% not compounded.  By comparison, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 0.7% since the end of July.  Most individual stocks are much lower.

Since end of June +40% not compounded.  By comparison, the DJIA is down 3% since the end of June.

Since early March +74% not compounded.  By comparison, the DJIA is down 1% since early March.

Obviously the market has been very consistent, despite (or because of) all its wild gyrations.  Our results too are very consistent, while effectively hedging against the market's gyrations and without any need to over-think the news of the day. 

Best of all, our Indicator usually signals an entry against the prevailing trend and mass sentiment, and after a protracted move in the opposite direction, which helps limit downside risk and adds hedging security.  Other services, if they have any reliable methods at all, at best offer entry ideas only when a trend is already long in the tooth.  In the whip-saw markets of the past few months, or years, that kind of shallow thinking will do your account in. 

The trick in our method, beyond our proprietary TREND Indicators, is not so much great accuracy as it is pruning losses while allowing gains to bloom, as is always the case in prudent investing, hedging and speculation.  Therefore, much depends on the individual and it is not easy to be so disciplined - it is often contrary to human nature - but a tool can do no good unless it is wielded as it should be.  If so, the winning greatly eclipses the losing over time.

Given all of the above, can you afford not to subscribe?